By Jack Clark, 7 March, 2011 15:02
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China will install CPUs developed by government-backed research institutions into a test supercomputer by the end of 2011.
The Loongson microchips will underpin the Dawning 6000 high-performance computing system, which is scheduled to be available for tasks as early as the summer of 2011, China's state-owned People's Daily Online publication reported on Monday.
"Our information industry was using foreign technology," Hu Weiwu, the chip's chief designer, said in the article. "However, just like a country's industry cannot always depend on foreign steel and oil, China's information industry needs its own CPU."
The Dawning 6000 will use up to 10,000 Loongson microchips and will eventually have a computing speed of "more than 1,000 trillion operations a second", according to Weiwu. 1,000 trillion operations are equal to a petaflop.
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